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MEDIA FARM: DIVERSITY FOR SALE

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Yet where diversity often starts out as a social justice motive, it often ends up as a commodity tool—an advertisement. Continue reading

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WILD NOTHING @ BRIGHTON MUSIC HALL

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Tonight, the Abraham of Synth-Stabs and his accompanying et al. sail into Brighton Music Hall for a born-again evening of emotionally dense yet danceable music. Continue reading

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IN THE TUBES: BAD CAPTAIN SWAG

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Lil B + Sole + Pictureplane + Skyriders = “Life … crazier than ever.” Continue reading

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BAR HAVOC AND THE SPIN DOCTORS

I don’t know what it is about 90’s music that just makes me impossibly happy. It wasn’t a particularly great decade; high school was terrible and I just remember wanting it to be over quickly. Continue reading

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MATT & KIM @ HOUSE OF BLUES

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If you were to break down the quirktacular Brooklynite duo Matt & Kim into their three essential components (or quirk-quarks, we like to call ‘em), you’d end up with a nervous sexual energy of a drunk first date, the hipstamatic album from a late-night trip to Denny’s, and the contents of a sullent teenage lesbian’s iPod. Which, so long as we’re on this didactic kick, is also a pretty apt description of Tumblr. Hmmm. Oh. Oh God. We just realized! Their show at the House of Blues! Somebody could post pics to fuckyeahmattandkim, which would push us past the Quirkzschild radius. Meaning … total quirkastrophy.

[THU 6.30.11. 15 Lansdowne St., Boston. 888.693.2583. 7pm/$22. hob.com/boston]

Matt & Kim -- Cameras (Mike D Remix) by mattandkim

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Florence and the Machine at House of Blues 10.31.10

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While Sunday could have been just another tour night for other bands out there, Florence and the Machine took Halloween and ran with it. And by ran with it, I mean killed it, tore it to pieces and wore its rib cage as a t-shirt. Continue reading